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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] *sigh* It's bullying writ large. That's all the present "PC" (that's Politically Correct, not Personal Computer) trend is a reflection of. Someone gets all noisy about something unimportant, and the target of that ire meekly submits. It's the schoolyard bully saying "give me your lunch money, shrimp!" It's also an extension of the gang mentality. If you have nothing of value, you assign value to what you have. And it will persist until "us and them" no longer matter. For instance... I am proud (usually) to be an American. I am proud to be from Seattle. I am proud to be (among other things) Irish. I'm not attached to any of it. I don't get pissed off at someone saying "Yank". If someone says something disparaging about the Irish, I don't pull out a gun and scream that I'll bust a cap in yo disrespectin' ass. The only reason PC has the power it does is because of people who get off on being victims. I've had variations on this conversation before -- too often for my taste. "Is it because I'm black?" "Actually, no -- I wouldn't have cared if you hadn't pointed it out." And like that. I know cops who are annoyed by the same thing, but I think it was summed up best in one of Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels: "You arrest a guy with a rap sheet three and a half yards long, and people say 'is it because he's black?' No, it's because he's got a rap sheet three and a half fucking yards long full of similar crimes." I'm flying up to Seattle in a few days to spend Christmas with my family. I will have to either leave my Swiss Army Knife at home or pack it in my checked baggage, whereas pre-9/11 I could carry it on my belt without a hiccup, so long as I passed it around the metal detector. I'm going to have to take off my shoes and put them through the x-ray machine. If anyone were seeing me off, they can no longer accompany me all the way to the gate. All this security because they don't want to be sued for profiling. Never mind the fact that it's been almost entirely Middle Eastern males between the ages of 15 and 45 who've been doing this stuff. Never mind that almost nothing can defend against the lone assassin committed to exhanging his life for the target. If it weren't for the fact that I actually want to get on my airplane, I'd raise a stink about just that. You know, here take my shoelaces, since I can strangle somebody with them. My belt, too, since it's got that heavy brass buckle on it. And my pen -- I could stab somebody with that. And come to think of it, better cut my hands off at the wrists because I'm trained in several forms of unarmed combat, and know how to kill with my bare hands. *sigh* --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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